Het Concentratie Kamp van Irene

Door Johanna Brandt
1905
First Edition
Ex Library copy

Johanna Brandt (18 November 1876 in Heidelberg, South African Republic – 13 January 1964 in Newlands, Cape Town) was a South African champion of Afrikaner nationalism, spy during the Boer War, prophet and writer on health subjects.
During the second phase of the Boer War Brandt, who was living in Pretoria, became active for the Boer cause. She organised women to spy on British officers and hid prisoners who were on the run. It was her actions that led to W. T. Stead running an article in the Review of Reviews about the appalling conditions in the Irene Concentration Camp, which contributed to a decline in British public support for the war.
After the war she wrote her own account of the Irene Concentration Camp, but her most well-known book was The Petticoat Commando, which told of her and her mother's exploits during the Boer War.

Hinges breaking
126mm x 187mm

R1,500

See also Die Kappie Kommando